Which is the best book to learn python

[Tim Harig]

On 2011-01-25, Mark Summerfield <list at qtrac.plus.com> wrote:
> On Jan 24, 5:09 pm, santosh hs <santosh.tron... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> i am beginner to python please tell me which is the best available
>> reference for beginner to start from novice
>
> If you want to learn Python 3 and have some prior programming
> experience (in any modern procedural or object oriented language), you
> might find
> "Programming in Python 3" (http://www.qtrac.eu/py3book.html) to be a
> good choice. (I'm biased though since I wrote it;-)

I am usually a big fan for O'reilly books and I started learning Python
from the first edition of _Learning Python_.  It's not a bad book and it
will get you started.  I cannot speak for the latest edition which seems to
contain quite a bit more then the version I read.

When Python 3 was released, I decided to try relearn Python 3 from scratch
rather then trying to simply figure out the differences between versions.  I
picked up Mr. Summerfield's book because it seemed to be the first book to
cover Python 3 excusively and I was rather impressed.  I would definitely
recommend it to others.

[OT] P.S. to Mark Summerfield.  You have been hanging around in the Go Nuts
mailing list.  Is that any indication that you might be considering writing
a book on Go?  If you do, you will have at least one customer.